Newspaper Nishikie is a huge archive of Japanese topical illustration from the 1870s: crime, politics, suicide, all kinds of weird topics. Below you see “Sumo Firemen”. Thanks, Ursi!
Tag: art
For vegemitelover and other artistical types
http://www.sonyclassics.com/artschoolconfidential/
This looks like the This Is Spinal Tap of art school. To quote the Fluxblog review:
Art School Confidential – This film is pretty much guaranteed to become a cult classic for most anyone who has ever been to art school, or has been involved with the art world. Set at a fictionalized version of Pratt , Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff build a thoughtful, highly critical movie about art and artists from the comedic blueprint of the art class scenes in the Ghost World film and the original four-page “Art School Confidential” strip from Eightball. Art school is such a largely untapped comedic oilwell that it never seems like a retread for Clowes, especially when the archetypes of the art world are rendered so accurately that they often inspire cringing recognition along with giggles and guffaws.
Best day at the mall ever
This pamphlet was distributed at a shopping mall by the artist. It is an instruction manual of sorts, done in DMV/air safety style, showing exactly how a day at the mall should go.
It’s the work of Packard Jennings, for whom I would like to buy a beer.
His next project needs lots of business reply envelopes, since it’s intended as an instruction manual for the hapless drones who work processing mail for large companies.
okay one more thing: Kati Heck
We Make Money Not Art revealed to me today the art of Kati Heck, which I am loving. It’s like a Northern European spin on Kahlo and Dali or something, but that doesn’t do her work justice. Go look.
Weapons for the Cubicle Wars
From We Make Money Not Art, a collection of nonlethal weapons for winning at the office game: The Woodpecker! The Firefly! The Cateye!
Egyptian
I still would really like to go to the Egyptian Mummy Stuff exhibit at the Bowers Museum. Anyone local interested?
Yes, Thomas Kinkade really is a douchebag
The whole L.A. Times hilarious exposé is behind the cut here
locals alert: big moog event
The Seed design studio in Santa Ana is having a big MOOG THING Saturday evening with a showing of the documentary, performances on Moog synths, exhibit, etc. Looks neato.
make your own bosch painting
more ether, george
I awoke in a black depression this morning, only to be jollied into a fit of giggling by the Aardvark’s Curious George Culture Wars post.
The other day we had discussed the difference between “cripes” and “yeesh”, both of which she uses as tags for posts on del.icio.us. It was my opinion that “cripes” could be used for any type of fucked-up situation, but that “yeesh” indicated not only that things were really jacked, but that someone was being a total lamer.
This is why the government needs to track us on the Internet, because the difference between a cripes and a yeesh is just the kind of subtle code that our biowarfare sleeper cell the terrorists use to signal their cohorts.
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